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Uncataloged Premier O Scale Gondola Car with Cover Announced

December 27, 2021 - M.T.H. Electric Trains has announced two exclusive, uncataloged Premier O Scale Gondola Cars with Covers for Patrick's Trains in Wheeling, West Virginia. The paint schemes are available in two car numbers, each of which is limited in production and is available only on a first-come, first-served basis. Anticipated delivery is April 2022

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Item No. 20-95528 Santa Fe Gondola Car w/Cover
Car No. 169633
Pre-Order Price: $74.95 (plus freight)
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Item No. 20-95529 Santa Fe Gondola Car w/Cover
Car No. 169639
Pre-Order Price: $74.95 (plus freight)
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Item No. 20-95530 Wheeling & Lake Erie Gondola Car w/Cover
Car No. 145546
Pre-Order Price: $74.95 (plus freight)
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Item No. 20-95531 Wheeling & Lake Erie Gondola Car w/Cover
Car No. 145552
Pre-Order Price: $74.95 (plus freight)
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ABOUT THE GONDOLA WITH COVER

On its customer Web site, the Union Pacific Railroad characterizes a gondola as an "extremely sturdy open design" for carrying "rugged unfinished commodities"; its "large flat interior design with side walls" is described as "more flexible than a flat car." These qualities make the modern gondola particularly popular with the steel industry, for transportation of loose materials like scrap metal, waste, coke, and slag as well as finished products like iron or steel plate, pipe, structural steel, and rails for railroad track. Our car replicates a 52’ mill gondola, so-called for its popularity with steel mills, and carries a removable load of scrap metal that might be recycled and used to stamp parts for autos, appliances, and a variety of other products.

Other commodities commonly shipped in gondolas include mineral ores, granite slabs, gravel, logs, lumber, railroad ties, and even prefabricated railroad track, also known as "panel track."

The name for these cars actually predates railroads. In the early 1800s, utilitarian flat-bottomed boats with low sides, used to transport coal down the Potomac River to the Washington D.C. area, were called gondolas as a spoof on the much fancier Venetian gondolas. Similarly shaped coal-carrying cars on early railroads earned the same moniker. As more specialized cars were invented for coal service, the gondola evolved into the general-purpose car it is today.

Order directly from:

Patrick's Trains
142 29th Street
Wheeling, West Virginia 26003
(304) 232-0714
www.patstrains.com
patstrains@aol.com

More One-of-a-Kind Catalog Artwork To Be Auctioned

M.T.H. Electric Trains has provided Cabin Fever Auctions - the auction company managing M.T.H.'s archive auctions - with several more select pieces of artwork commissioned for covers of past O Gauge catalogs as part of this week's Cabin Fever auction. Each of the paintings were painted by a local Maryland artist and used as the cover image on M.T.H. O Gauge catalogs between 1995 and 1998.

Learn more about this week's auction by going HERE.


M.T.H. Electric Trains will be releasing the RailKing O Gauge 4-Bay Cylindrical Hopper Car in four select liveries beginning early next year. Each of these unique schemes will be available in limited production quantities and will begin shipping to M.T.H. Authorized Retailers in March 2022.

Check out each of these offerings HERE.

These items are available to order from your local M.T.H. Authorized Retailer.


M.T.H. Electric Trains will be releasing the Premier O Scale Gondola with Cover in four select liveries beginning early next year. Each of these unique schemes will be available in limited production quantities and will begin shipping to M.T.H. Authorized Retailers in May 2022.

Check out each of these offerings HERE.

These items are available to order from your local M.T.H. Authorized Retailer.



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Hi Jim, I am having a Lionel PS-1 boxcar, a PS-5 gondola and a PS-2 hopper painted in a non-porotype road name after a local company in Massachusetts (now closed) Bird Machine Company. I have a traditional sized 6464 car painted in the scheme I and the late Buddy Schwartz designed. Buddy did the original painting on the Lionel 6464 car.  He actually painted a whole Bird Machine work train for me using an old Lionel postwar 622 switcher and postwar cars.  Buddy did an outstanding job and it is a great looking set in red, black and silver paint. 

Now that I have moved to scale sized trains I would love to see these cars custom run in scale by either MTH or Lionel.  Charles Ro is my closet MTH dealer but I am not aware of him doing custom runs.  Any other MTH dealers interested?

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OGR Publishing, Inc., 1310 Eastside Centre Ct, Ste 6, Mountain Home, AR 72653
800-980-OGRR (6477)
www.ogaugerr.com

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